After the extremely successful premiere last year, the project for aspiring artists named Create: Business on November 18, 2014 on the Square of Ideas in Düsseldorf goes into the second round. It should be larger and more multifaceted than in the previous year.
In addition to an extended lecture forum, the so -called Create: Business Marketplatz , on which subject experts from different areas take time for the individual questions of the founders and the self -employed in a wide variety of creative professions .
Thus, an innovative platform for all creatives from North Rhine-Westphalia is created again within the founding week of Germany and invited to the state capital for a lively Tete-A-Tet. Certainly a major role in the organization of this project should be the high priority of the cultural and creative industries within North Rhine-Westphalia.

It is not considered one of the key industries in NRW without reason. In 2012, every fourth euro of the German industry turnover of 36 billion euros came from North Rhine-Westphalia.
NRW is therefore a home for around 50,000 companies in the cultural and creative industries with more than 300,000 employees. The invoice is to be actively helped with the start-up day creative entrepreneurs to start and grow.
It should be particularly interesting for many creative people in Düsseldorf will inform both in the lecture forum and the Create: Business Marktplatz about the recently launched NRW.Kreativ credit
"With Create: Business we want to help these small, innovative companies to use their market potential better," emphasizes Immo Schiller, the second project manager of Create: Business, "The mediation of entrepreneurial know-how is elementary. But it is also important to create offers that support small companies in competition."
According to the organizers, the NRW.Kreativ loan is a step in the right direction, since so far many good ideas have failed to procure capital.
The following existential issues are in the focus from the creative perspective:
- How do I get capital to realize my ideas?
- Who gives me money for a prototype?
- What needs to be considered in the artist social fund?
- How do I create the balancing act between family and work?
- How do I calculate my fees correctly?
- How do I present my ideas confidently and rousing?
Thanks to the partner's commitment, Create: Business be offered free of charge for all participants. Fortunately, free childcare is also taken care of.

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